The Goodlife: Telling the Passover story for a new generation

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Passover is the Jewish festival that remembers the exodus from Egypt. On the first two nights of the festival, Jewish families participate in the Seder - a ritualised meal in which Jews tell the exodus story. They are called on to empathise with their ancestors, as if they themselves had fled slavery and were delivered by God.

The story of the exodus is told in the Haggadah. The literal translation means, "the narrative". And just as stories change with every telling, there are almost as many versions of the Haggadah as there are Jews to read them.

A new version edited by renowned author Jonathan Safran Foer re-imagines the Seder ritual and the exodus story for a new generation.The book includes commentaries not from Rabbis, but from four lay Jewish intellectuals. One of those is the philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose books on the "big questions" - theological and philosophical - have won popular and critical acclaim.

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